Soundrivers.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
79% 
Page quality
70% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
43% 
Server
74% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.77 s
File size
332.70 kB
Words
1968
Media files
30
Number of links
99 internal / 4 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sound Rivers - Protecting the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico rivers for 40 years
The page title should be shorter than 580 pixels. It is 646 pixels long. Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Our mission is to monitor and protect the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River watersheds covering nearly one quarter of North Carolina, and to preserve the health and…
The meta description is too long: 1002 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://soundrivers.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
There are 2 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: Be a part of Sound Rivers’ Water Watch team! Join Neuse Riverkeeper Sa...
This page contains 1968 words. That's ok.
35.6% of the text are stop words.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
29 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 23.65 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
Some tags are too long. With 92 characters this one is longer than 70 characters:
"want to get weekly water quality alerts straight to your phone? text “swim” to 833-686-5322!"
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
28 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.
The structure of headings is missing one or more levels. Do not skip heading levels.
There are 47 headings on the page. The amount of headings should be in a more proper relation to the amount of text.
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H2 Leadership
H2 Sunset Paddle
H2 Join the Fight!
H2 Listen up!
H2 Sound Rivers SWAG
H2 How We Make a Difference
H2 » Join the Fight
H2 Watershed Issues
H2 Swim Guide
H2 Events
H2 Sign up for eNews!
H2 Latest News
H2 Report a Problem
H3 Site Search
H3 STORMWATER RUNOFF
H3 CAFOs
H3 MICROPLASTICS
H3 SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS
H3 CLIMATE CHANGE
H3 Thanks so much to our 2025 Swim Guide Sponsors
H3 2025 Oyster Roast
H3 Water Watch Training: New Bern
H3 Water Watch Training: Washington
H4 Tar-Pamlico River
H4 Neuse River
H4 Empty heading
H4 Empty heading
H4 Empty heading
H4 Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs)
H4 Empty heading
H4 OYSTER ROAST 2025: Everything you need to know!
H4 Experience the Tar-Pamlico Water Trail
H4 ECU partnership a trade of water-quality know-how, equipment
H4 Riverkeeper attends Environmental Justice Leadership Academy
H4 Sunset paddle a huge success
H4 DEQ issues notice of violation to Rocky Mount
H4 Specialist tracking pollution impacts on urban waterway
H4 Riverkeeper tracks post-Chantal pollution on the Eno
H4 ‘Power Bill Reduction Act’ will raise costs, climate-change risk
H5 November 15th 2025
H5 August 21st 2025
H5 August 20th 2025
H5 July 25th 2025
H5 July 24th 2025
H5 July 24th 2025 Duplicate text
H5 July 24th 2025 Duplicate text
H5 July 24th 2025 Duplicate text
H5 July 17th 2025
H5 July 17th 2025 Duplicate text
H5 July 17th 2025 Duplicate text
H5 July 17th 2025 Duplicate text
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 13 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 4 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://soundrivers.org/IMG-ALT Sound Rivers
/our-commitment/Our Commitment
https://soundrivers.org/history/History
/40th-anniversary/40th Anniversary
/in-their-own-voices/In Their Own Voices
/about-us/team/Our people
/about-us/team/Team
/about-us/team/board-of-direct...Board of Directors
/job-openings/Job Openings
https://soundrivers.org/contact/Contact Us
/our-work/restoration/Campus Stormwater
/litter-free-rivers/Litter-Free Rivers
/swim-guide/Swim Guide
/water-watch/Water Watch
/currents-archive/Currents Archive
/news/events/Events
https://soundrivers.org/news/News
/our-work/education/Education
/our-rivers/recreation/Recreation
/sound-rivers-podcast/Sound Rivers Podcast
https://sound-rivers.printify....External Subdomain Sound Rivers Store
/resources/protecting-water-qu...Water Quality Hacks at Home
https://soundrivers.org/join-us/Join The Fight
/current-action-alerts/Action Alerts
/enews-sign-up/eNews Sign-up
/join-renew-membership/Join Sound Rivers
/volunteer-signup/Volunteer!
/adopt-a-trash-trap/Adopt a Trash Trap!
https://soundrivers.org/donate/Donate
/tar-pamlico-water-trail/Tar-Pamlico Water Trail
https://soundrivers.org/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Sound Rivers
/our-commitment/Text duplicate Our Commitment
https://soundrivers.org/history/Text duplicate History
/40th-anniversary/Text duplicate 40th Anniversary
/in-their-own-voices/Text duplicate In Their Own Voices
/about-us/team/Text duplicate Our people
/about-us/team/Text duplicate Team
/about-us/team/board-of-direct...Text duplicate Board of Directors
/job-openings/Text duplicate Job Openings
https://soundrivers.org/contact/Text duplicate Contact Us
/our-work/restoration/Text duplicate Campus Stormwater
/litter-free-rivers/Text duplicate Litter-Free Rivers
/swim-guide/Text duplicate Swim Guide
/water-watch/Text duplicate Water Watch
/currents-archive/Text duplicate Currents Archive
/news/events/Text duplicate Events
https://soundrivers.org/news/Text duplicate News
/our-work/education/Text duplicate Education
/our-rivers/recreation/Text duplicate Recreation
/sound-rivers-podcast/Text duplicate Sound Rivers Podcast
https://sound-rivers.printify....External Subdomain Text duplicate Sound Rivers Store
/resources/protecting-water-qu...Text duplicate Water Quality Hacks at Home
https://soundrivers.org/join-us/Text duplicate Join The Fight
/current-action-alerts/Text duplicate Action Alerts
/enews-sign-up/Text duplicate eNews Sign-up
/join-renew-membership/Text duplicate Join Sound Rivers
/volunteer-signup/Text duplicate Volunteer!
/adopt-a-trash-trap/Text duplicate Adopt a Trash Trap!
https://soundrivers.org/donate/Text duplicate Donate
/tar-pamlico-water-trail/Text duplicate Tar-Pamlico Water Trail
/riverkeeper-attends-environme...Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://soundrivers.org/newsLatest News
/sunset-paddle-a-huge-success/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://soundrivers.org/newsText duplicate Latest News
https://soundrivers.org/donate/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://soundrivers.org/newsText duplicate Latest News
/sound-rivers-podcast/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://soundrivers.org/newsText duplicate Latest News
/sound-rivers-launches-online-...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
https://soundrivers.org/newsText duplicate Latest News
/riverkeepers/Meet our riverkeepers
/watersheds/Our Watersheds
https://soundrivers.org/join-us/» Join the Fight
/join-renew-membership/Donate Today!
https://soundrivers.org/Anchor No Text
https://soundrivers.org/Anchor No Text
https://soundrivers.org/Anchor No Text
https://soundrivers.org/Anchor No Text
https://soundrivers.org/Anchor No Text
/watershed-isues/stormwater-ru...Find out more
/watershed-issues/stormwater-r...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/watershed-isues/cafos/Text duplicate Find out more
/watershed-issues/cafos/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/watershed-isues/microplastics/Learn more
/watershed-isues/microplastics/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/watershed-isues/sanitary-sewe...Text duplicate Learn more
/watershed-issues/sanitary-sew...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
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/watershed-isues/climate-change/Text duplicate Learn more
/watershed-issues/climate-change/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/el-programa-de-swim-guide/EN ESPANOL
/swim-guide/get latest results!
/event/2025-oyster-roast/Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/event/water-watch-training-ne...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/event/water-watch-training-wa...Text duplicate Trivial anchor text
Read More
/news/events/See 4 Upcoming Events
https://soundrivers.org/newsAll News
/report-a-problem/REPORT!
https://soundrivers.org/join-us/Get Involved
/volunteer/Volunteer
/enews-sign-up/Text duplicate eNews Sign-up
/report-a-problem/Report A Problem
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Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://soundrivers.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
The X-powered header is sent within the response header. (unnecessary)
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.77 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (333 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 349 referring domains.
This page has 1,516 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 166 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

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soundrivers.org
Sound Rivers - Protecting the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico rivers for 40 y...
Our mission is to monitor and protect the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River watersheds covering nearly one quarter of North Carolina, and to preserve the health and…

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
River86%Check
Neuse River78%Check
Tar-Pamlico River76%Check
Pamlico69%Check
Neuse68%Check
Pamlico Sound68%Check
Neuse Tar-Pamlico67%Check
Tar-Pamlico River watersheds67%Check
Tar-Pamlico rivers67%Check
Rivers65%Check

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